According to a number of Japanese media reports quoted by the Global Network, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio decided to reorganize the cabinet and replace 7 cabinet members related to the "Unification Church". Among them, the most interesting is that Yasuichi Hamada succeeded Kishi Nobuo as Minister of Defense.
Kishi Nobuo is well known to everyone that the younger brother of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a well-known "hawkish" figure within the Liberal Democratic Party advocates being tough on China. Since the beginning of this year, Kishi Nobuo's health has been deteriorating, Kishida has long wanted to remove him on the grounds of poor health, and now that he has the relationship of the Unification Church, he can finally justifiably fire Kishi Nobuo.
Koichi Hamada, who succeeded Kishi Nobuo, is not well-known in the outside world, but he is also an old man of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as a member of the House of Representatives 10 times, was one of the few non-factional politicians within the Liberal Democratic Party, and served as Defense Minister in the Aso Cabinet.
It is worth mentioning that Hamada's father, Koichi Hamada, is also a member of the Liberal Democratic Party,and both father and son are far-right. Yasuichi Hamada has made controversial remarks such as "Japan is not an aggressor country" and "The Japanese prime minister should visit the Yasukuni Shrine." A few days before Pelosi went to Taiwan, Yasuichi Hamada and shigeru Ishiba, a former Japanese prime ministerial candidate, organized a delegation to Taiwan, which aggravated Sino-Japanese tensions.
Another LDP member with close ties to Abe, Takaichi Sanae, was transferred from his position as chairman of the LDP to minister of economic security. On the surface, the title of minister is a little higher, but this wave is actually a bright rise and a dark fall.
The position of political investigation chairman is equivalent to the third person in the LDP besides the president and secretary general, and he has a lot of real power in his hands, responsible for the mediation and propaganda work of various departments of the LDP.
Takashi itself does not belong to any faction, and relies entirely on Abe to pull it. In last year's LDP presidential election, Abe and Kishida made a political deal, and after Kishida came to power, he rewarded Takashi with a high official, and Takashi is also considered to be Abe's eyeliner in Kishida's cabinet.
Now that Abe is dead and Takashi Sanae's biggest patron is gone, Kishida of course has to clean up the portal. This so-called minister of economic security and security is actually an idle post, and like the digital minister who Kono Taro was transferred to be, he was not long after his establishment, and was mainly responsible for the security of important industries, such as semiconductors.
The semiconductor industry is of course very important to Japan, but this newly established department has a disadvantage, that is, the level and efficiency are very low, belonging to the nominal kind, basically can not toss any splash.
It can be seen that Kishida's personnel change has taken a lot of thought. Yasuichi Hamada is nominally a non-factionalist, but his relationship with the LDP tycoons is not shallow, in addition to Aso Taro and Shigeru Ishiba, Yasuichi Hamada also formed a band with the current Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa.
Therefore, the appointment of Hamada as such an important defense minister could not only continue to deepen the cooperative relationship with the second largest faction, the Aso faction, but also win over the small faction of the Mizukikai led by Shigeru Ishiba to oppose Abe's first major faction, the Kiyokawakai.
But at the same time, Kishida could not allow the Aso faction to sit on the throne, so he transferred the most promising heir of the Aso faction, Taro Kono, to an idle post. Kono Taro's father was Yohei Kono, and the Aso school was founded by him and later handed over to Aso, but the old man refused to hand over power, and Kono Taro would fall into such a passive situation.
In addition, Hiroshi Moriyama, president of the Moriyama faction, a non-mainstream faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, was promoted to chairman of the LDP's election countermeasures committee, a position with high gold content.
Japanese media analysis believes that Moriyama once served in Suga's cabinet and had a good relationship with the former secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, Toshihiro Niji, both of whom have now become marginalized figures. Kishida did this in order to unite all available forces within the Liberal Democratic Party in order to suppress the Cheonghori.
In short, Kishida's current cabinet reshuffle is essentially a use of the "Unification Church" scandal to purge the Abe faction and cultivate his own power. Since Abe's death, the KiyokawaKai has also been in a state of leaderlessness, and the internal high-level is busy with infighting, which gives Kishida an opportunity to take advantage.
I have to say that Kishida's luck is really good. When running for prime minister, he encountered a rivalry between the Abe faction and the Aso faction, and finally let the fisherman pick peaches; Not long after coming to power, he caught up with Abe's sudden death and got rid of the situation of being subject to people. I think that if Suga Yoshihide had this luck, why did he slip off the stage with a black pot of ash on his back?